Text-only version - functions of co-design supervision

version one by KA McKercher (2024) 

adapted with permission from Rod Baxter & Trissel Eriksen’s Supervision Scrapbook: A resource for youth workers. Third Edition (2022)

support and restore  —   debrief, celebrate, build emotional endurance, feel the work, plan and do self and collective care, identify resources, strengthen self-advocacy  

learn — from experiences, from each other, from intuition and other ways of knowing, discuss theory and tools, critique, identify creative ideas for growth, career development

explore and manage —  ethical dilemmas, sequencing, roles and responsibilities, relationships, accountability, sponsors, quality, failure, depth and breadth, communications, expectations, constraints, impact 

notice and name — skills, values, strengths, homecomings [1] unique approaches, scope of practice [2] what you’re best for [3]

shoulder each other up in the work [3,4]

[1] Lama Rod Owen (2020) Love and rage 

[2] McKercher, KA (2023) Why designers need a scope of practice 

[3] Vikki Reynolds (2019) Zone of Fabulousness  

[4] Vikki Reynolds (2012) An ethical stance for justice-doing in community work and therapy